noiseful_joy

Sjoerd Leijten is a transdisciplinary artist, composer and radio maker with a keen interest in dissident sounds and politics. He often works with electromagnetism, field recordings, noise, realtime processing and open source software and hardware.

His work consists of performances, concerts, DIY instruments, installations, releases, podcasts, films and radio. His music for cinema and videogames has won several awards. He has showed his work in various places, amongst others Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), Dimanche Rouge (Paris, FR), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, NL), Incubate (Tilburg, NL), Het Bos (Antwerp, BE), Kernel Festival (Desio, IT), Oerol (Terschelling, NL), Berlin Art Weekend (Berlin, DE) and the Old Church (Amsterdam, NL).